What Is Said and What Is Not

The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

edited by Carlo Penco and Filippo Domaneschi

This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit
communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's
theories on “what is said,” the contributors explore a number of areas, including:
the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit
communication; the idea of the logical form of our assertions; the notion
of conventional meaning; the phenomenon of deixis, which refers to when an
utterance require context in order to be understood fully; the treatment
of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes.

Carlo Penco is Director of the Doctoral School in Humanities at the University of Genoa. Filippo Domaneschi is a graduate student at the University of Genoa.